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    Release</A
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>The Bugzilla Team</H3
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>2011-11-24<BR></P
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>&#13;	      This is the documentation for Bugzilla, a 
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><B
>Table of Contents</B
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><DT
>1. <A
HREF="about.html"
>About This Guide</A
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><DD
><DL
><DT
>1.1. <A
HREF="copyright.html"
>Copyright Information</A
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><DT
>1.2. <A
HREF="disclaimer.html"
>Disclaimer</A
></DT
><DT
>1.3. <A
HREF="newversions.html"
>New Versions</A
></DT
><DT
>1.4. <A
HREF="credits.html"
>Credits</A
></DT
><DT
>1.5. <A
HREF="conventions.html"
>Document Conventions</A
></DT
></DL
></DD
><DT
>2. <A
HREF="installing-bugzilla.html"
>Installing Bugzilla</A
></DT
><DD
><DL
><DT
>2.1. <A
HREF="installation.html"
>Installation</A
></DT
><DT
>2.2. <A
HREF="configuration.html"
>Configuration</A
></DT
><DT
>2.3. <A
HREF="extraconfig.html"
>Optional Additional Configuration</A
></DT
><DT
>2.4. <A
HREF="multiple-bz-dbs.html"
>Multiple Bugzilla databases with a single installation</A
></DT
><DT
>2.5. <A
HREF="os-specific.html"
>OS-Specific Installation Notes</A
></DT
><DT
>2.6. <A
HREF="nonroot.html"
>UNIX (non-root) Installation Notes</A
></DT
><DT
>2.7. <A
HREF="upgrade.html"
>Upgrading to New Releases</A
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></DD
><DT
>3. <A
HREF="administration.html"
>Administering Bugzilla</A
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>3.1. <A
HREF="parameters.html"
>Bugzilla Configuration</A
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><DT
>3.2. <A
HREF="useradmin.html"
>User Administration</A
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><DT
>3.3. <A
HREF="classifications.html"
>Classifications</A
></DT
><DT
>3.4. <A
HREF="products.html"
>Products</A
></DT
><DT
>3.5. <A
HREF="components.html"
>Components</A
></DT
><DT
>3.6. <A
HREF="versions.html"
>Versions</A
></DT
><DT
>3.7. <A
HREF="milestones.html"
>Milestones</A
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><DT
>3.8. <A
HREF="flags-overview.html"
>Flags</A
></DT
><DT
>3.9. <A
HREF="keywords.html"
>Keywords</A
></DT
><DT
>3.10. <A
HREF="custom-fields.html"
>Custom Fields</A
></DT
><DT
>3.11. <A
HREF="edit-values.html"
>Legal Values</A
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><DT
>3.12. <A
HREF="bug_status_workflow.html"
>Bug Status Workflow</A
></DT
><DT
>3.13. <A
HREF="voting.html"
>Voting</A
></DT
><DT
>3.14. <A
HREF="quips.html"
>Quips</A
></DT
><DT
>3.15. <A
HREF="groups.html"
>Groups and Group Security</A
></DT
><DT
>3.16. <A
HREF="sanitycheck.html"
>Checking and Maintaining Database Integrity</A
></DT
></DL
></DD
><DT
>4. <A
HREF="security.html"
>Bugzilla Security</A
></DT
><DD
><DL
><DT
>4.1. <A
HREF="security-os.html"
>Operating System</A
></DT
><DT
>4.2. <A
HREF="security-webserver.html"
>Web server</A
></DT
><DT
>4.3. <A
HREF="security-bugzilla.html"
>Bugzilla</A
></DT
></DL
></DD
><DT
>5. <A
HREF="using.html"
>Using Bugzilla</A
></DT
><DD
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>5.1. <A
HREF="using-intro.html"
>Introduction</A
></DT
><DT
>5.2. <A
HREF="myaccount.html"
>Create a Bugzilla Account</A
></DT
><DT
>5.3. <A
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>Anatomy of a Bug</A
></DT
><DT
>5.4. <A
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>Life Cycle of a Bug</A
></DT
><DT
>5.5. <A
HREF="query.html"
>Searching for Bugs</A
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><DT
>5.6. <A
HREF="bugreports.html"
>Filing Bugs</A
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>5.7. <A
HREF="attachments.html"
>Attachments</A
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><DT
>5.8. <A
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>Hints and Tips</A
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>5.9. <A
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>Time Tracking Information</A
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>5.10. <A
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>User Preferences</A
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>5.11. <A
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>Reports and Charts</A
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><DT
>5.12. <A
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>Flags</A
></DT
><DT
>5.13. <A
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>Whining</A
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><DT
>6. <A
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>Customizing Bugzilla</A
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>6.1. <A
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>Bugzilla Extensions</A
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>6.2. <A
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>Custom Skins</A
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>6.3. <A
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>Template Customization</A
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>6.4. <A
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>Customizing Who Can Change What</A
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><DT
>6.5. <A
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>Integrating Bugzilla with Third-Party Tools</A
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>A. <A
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>Troubleshooting</A
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>A.1. <A
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>General Advice</A
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>A.2. <A
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>The Apache web server is not serving Bugzilla pages</A
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>A.3. <A
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>I installed a Perl module, but 
      <TT
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>checksetup.pl</TT
> claims it's not installed!</A
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>A.4. <A
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>DBD::Sponge::db prepare failed</A
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><DT
>A.5. <A
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>cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue)</A
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>A.6. <A
HREF="trbl-relogin-everyone.html"
>Everybody is constantly being forced to relogin</A
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><DT
>A.7. <A
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><TT
CLASS="filename"
>index.cgi</TT
> doesn't show up unless specified in the URL</A
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><DT
>A.8. <A
HREF="trbl-passwd-encryption.html"
>checksetup.pl reports "Client does not support authentication protocol
      requested by server..."</A
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>B. <A
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>Contrib</A
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>B.1. <A
HREF="cmdline.html"
>Command-line Search Interface</A
></DT
><DT
>B.2. <A
HREF="cmdline-bugmail.html"
>Command-line 'Send Unsent Bug-mail' tool</A
></DT
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></DD
><DT
>C. <A
HREF="install-perlmodules-manual.html"
>Manual Installation of Perl Modules</A
></DT
><DD
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>C.1. <A
HREF="modules-manual-instructions.html"
>Instructions</A
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><DT
>C.2. <A
HREF="modules-manual-download.html"
>Download Locations</A
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><DT
>C.3. <A
HREF="modules-manual-optional.html"
>Optional Modules</A
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>D. <A
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>GNU Free Documentation License</A
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>0. <A
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>Preamble</A
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>1. <A
HREF="gfdl-1.html"
>Applicability and Definition</A
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>2. <A
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>Verbatim Copying</A
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>3. <A
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>Copying in Quantity</A
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>4. <A
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>Modifications</A
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>5. <A
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>Combining Documents</A
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>6. <A
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>Collections of Documents</A
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>Aggregation with Independent Works</A
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>8. <A
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>Translation</A
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>9. <A
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>Termination</A
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><DT
>10. <A
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>Future Revisions of this License</A
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><DT
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>How to use this License for your documents</A
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>Glossary</A
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><B
>List of Figures</B
></DT
><DT
>5-1. <A
HREF="lifecycle.html#lifecycle-image"
>Lifecycle of a Bugzilla Bug</A
></DT
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><B
>List of Examples</B
></DT
><DT
>A-1. <A
HREF="trbl-relogin-everyone.html#trbl-relogin-everyone-share"
>Examples of urlbase/cookiepath pairs for sharing login cookies</A
></DT
><DT
>A-2. <A
HREF="trbl-relogin-everyone.html#trbl-relogin-everyone-restrict"
>Examples of urlbase/cookiepath pairs to restrict the login cookie</A
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